Still, Indiana has a special relationship with the history of eugenics.
I really think this is the history that needs to be taught. This is when you really get how fucked up our history has been at an institutional level.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Oct 05, 2005 9:18:37 am PDT #3543 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Betsy HP - Oct 05, 2005 9:19:41 am PDT #3544 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
§ ita § - Oct 05, 2005 9:20:36 am PDT #3545 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
given Tom Cruise's behavior earlier this year and the box office performance of War of the Worlds, isn't unfounded
Well, there's no way to tell what the box office would have been without the shenanigans. It's a pretty high-profile-laden enterprise. And if the rumours that Spielberg won't work with him again are true, I think it's a bit Pyhrric.
Calli - Oct 05, 2005 9:20:42 am PDT #3546 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Then there was the whole Tuskeegee experiment thing. Yeah, I can see where there's a certain level of suspicion re: mass medicine issues.
But I still think Nigerians should vaccinate for polio. Apparently some folks there think that the polio vaccines are designed to make the women sterile. Which is why Yemen is dealing with polio for the first time in years. Disease doesn't respect national borders.
Betsy HP - Oct 05, 2005 9:21:09 am PDT #3547 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
1882 Richmond Indiana resident Dr. Joseph Iutzi publishes “Heredity and Its Relations to Disease,” which argues that insanity, tuberculosis, and syphilis, among other diseases, are predominantly inherited.
Hey, that's my home town! And I'd like to point out that he's two-for-three: syphilis can indeed be contracted congenitally, and was a common cause of infant disease. There's a strong genetic link for some kinds of insanity (notably schizophrenia and depression). And God knows that in 1882, you'd be noticing that entire families had tuberculosis.
§ ita § - Oct 05, 2005 9:21:44 am PDT #3548 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
New nickel.
t history-ignorant furriner Who's the dude? Same one, new angle? t /history-ignorant furriner
Betsy HP - Oct 05, 2005 9:22:17 am PDT #3549 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Same one, new angle.
§ ita § - Oct 05, 2005 9:22:26 am PDT #3550 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
syphilis can indeed be contracted congenitally
Was it transmitted this way predominantly, though?
DavidS - Oct 05, 2005 9:22:48 am PDT #3551 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Who's the dude?
Jefferson.
brenda m - Oct 05, 2005 9:23:37 am PDT #3552 of 10002
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